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Scrum & UX Fundamentals

November 4, 2024
Scrum and Lean UX share several similarities in their principles and practices, particularly in their focus on collaboration, iterative development, and delivering value to customers. Both Scrum and Lean UX embrace an iterative and incremental approach. Learn more in this blog post from PST Simon Kneafsey.
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Agile Assessment at CAPITAL Services

November 3, 2024
In this podcast, we dive into a transformative case study with CAPITAL Services, a leading credit card servicer. Once reliant on traditional waterfall methodologies, they sought a faster way to innovate and maintain a competitive edge. By adopting Scrum, they set out to deliver the best work and get real-time feedback on their progress.
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The Real Question We Should Be Asking About Agile Transformation

November 1, 2024
Despite massive investments in Digital Transformation, with $6.3 trillion projected by 2024, failure rates remain high—around 84%. The issue? Many large organizations lean heavily on scaling frameworks like SAFe or LeSS, but without adapting them to their unique needs, they struggle to achieve Agile success. Rather than simply adopting a framework, organizations should focus on evolving it to fit their specific, changing context. The key question isn’t “How can I adopt Framework X?” but “How can I evolve my framework to meet my organization’s needs?”
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The Case for Flow Metrics

October 31, 2024
Agile teams often struggle with how to size and forecast upcoming work. Flow metrics offer a simple, effective way to solve that problem without the headaches that come from traditional estimation methods. In fact, flow metrics can provide more accurate planning and forecasting than using points or hours—and they keep things agile, not bogged down in endless debates about estimates.
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Organize For Products - Not False Efficiency

October 31, 2024
Efficiency seems like an important word. Other words like productivity, specialization, capacity, utilization and standardization also sound pretty impressive. These words are important words for optimizing (another word!) repetitive processes. The problem is that these words are not as important when it comes to creative work or problem-solving. Read more in this blog post from PST Mary Iqbal.
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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

October 28, 2024
Risk management is often focused on preventing negative outcomes, but it's equally important to embrace positive risks. By encouraging experimentation and rewarding innovation, leaders can foster a culture that drives growth and breakthrough solutions.
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Scrum: The Power of Doing Less

October 24, 2024
Scrum’s strength lies in its simplicity. Discover why stripping down to only the essentials makes Scrum a truly lightweight framework that empowers teams to focus on what really matters.
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The Power of Product Thinking

October 24, 2024
Struggling with unclear priorities, technical debt, or stalled progress with your Scrum Teams? Adopting a product-focused approach can unlock your team's potential and drive continuous value. Discover how one team went from nine months of frustration to delivering game-changing solutions in just weeks by shifting their focus from 'completing projects' to solving real customer problems. Ready to transform your results? Read on to learn how product thinking makes all the difference.
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How to Handle Multiple Products as a Product Owner

October 23, 2024
Managing multiple products as a Product Owner presents both challenges and opportunities. In this video PSTs Greg Crown, Jason Malmstadt, and Robert Pieper share strategies for defining products more clearly, discuss the pros and cons of managing multiple products, and explain how diverse perspectives can enhance product management.
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The 5 Worst Agile Mistakes I’ve Made

October 21, 2024
This article was tough to write, not because I don’t have enough mistakes to share, but because there are so many! Mistakes are where we learn, and that’s exactly what I’ve done. I hope sharing mine will help you avoid making the same ones.
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Developers Accountability in Scrum

October 17, 2024
TLDR: Developers: Are members of the Scrum Team who do the work on the Increment toward the Product Goal, whether that's marketing work, legal work, business analysis, software development, or testing/verification Build quality in via adherence to the Definition of Done for the Product Self-manage Focus on the Sprint Goal toward the Product Goal Own the Sprint Backlog, and no one tells them how to do their work Continuously improve Should embrace 'fuzziness' as one can focus too much on responsibilities
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🇮🇹 5 Tecniche di Product Discovery

October 16, 2024
In questo articolo Fabio Panzavolta propone di esplorare 5 tecniche di Product Discovery che possono aiutare a capire se investire in un prodotto è giudizioso. Nello sviluppo di prodotti, è fondamentale creare soluzioni che rispondano realmente alle esigenze degli utenti.
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Should 'Stakeholder' and 'Leader' be Accountabilities in Scrum, like Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers?

October 14, 2024
No team is an island. It's easier for a team to succeed with the support of stakeholders. There are four main reasons: 1). Distance from the team to the customer/user has an inverse relationship with desired customer/user outcomes. 2). Distance from the team to other stakeholders has an inverse relationship with organizational desired outcomes. 3). Some stakeholders can cultivate the environment to reduce the incoherence of management processes and ways of working, 4). Some stakeholders can cultivate the climate with effective DEI and increase the levels of psychological safety, inspiration, and motivation.